rglullis

I would love to see hosts start offering subscription based instances

Communick offers access to Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix for $29/year

I’d legitimately pay for that.

How much? "Regular auditing of the infrastructure" seems like a very enterprise-y thing to expect from a basic SaaS.

What keeps most of them away from free software is that they can’t write a contract with anyone with clear boundaries and guarantees.

They can. There are plenty of companies offering Mastodon hosting.

The code is AGPL. They can't do open core.

But then why do you worry about the ap_id patterns from other software?

So, I’ve rewritten the search / search boxes in Tesseract to skip the search and directly resolve activity pub URLs for users, posts, comments, and communities. I’m loving this as it makes things so much faster and easier.

Isn't that the whole point of webfinger? Moreover, why would you paint yourself into a corner and hardcode the logic for all the different types of services, if ActivityPub uses JSON-LD and therefore provides a straightforward method for document dereferencing?

I'm not trying to be snarky. It's just that I'm writing ActivityPub server where the id of each object is just an ULID, because to the server there is zero difference between serving the information about an actor or an activity.

Yeah, USD.

Safer in the sense of "less likely to go down or disappear".

If you are willing to have professional support and also support the underlying projects: Communick offers accounts only for paying-members. $29/year gives you an account on Mastodon, Lemmy, Funkwhale and Matrix, and we pledge to give 20% of the profits to the fediverse projects that we offer.

instance size is not necessarily a strong signal that the instance is safer.

XMPP is for private messages, not public discussion.

XMPP is just the transport. You can build a public social network on top of XMPP just fine.

WebSub solved the efficiency issue, no?

Yes, but almost no developer is looking at ActivityPub as a protocol to "add a social layer to their websites and applications". Instead, we are stuck in this "let's replicate the centralized social networks! With blackjack! And hookers! And ActivityPub!" way of thinking.